Em 2001, plantas de chicória (Cichorium endivia) originárias do município de Catalão-GO apresentando sintomas de manchas e queima foliar foram recebidas na Clínica Fitopatológica da Embrapa Hortaliças (CNPH). Tecidos submetidos à câmara úmida produziram esporulação fúngica, de onde foi obtida cultura monospórica em BDA + cloranfenicol. Para o teste de patogenecidade, o fungo foi multiplicado em meio de cultura suco de tomate ágar (ST) e inoculado em plantas de chicória da cultivar comercial AG-3804, em casa-de-vegetação. Após dez dias de incubação, verificou-se nas plantas inoculadas a presença de sintomas, semelhantes àqueles observados inicialmente. O patógeno foi reisolado a partir destas lesões, completando os postulados de Koch. Em seguida, visando testar a possibilidade deste patógeno infetar outras plantas da família Asteraceae, conídios produzidos em ST e atomizados em plantas de alface (Lactuca sativa) (três variedades), almeirão (Cichorium intybus) (duas variedades), Catalonha (Cichorium intybus) folha fina, serralha (Sonchus oleraceus) e uma outra variedade de chicória. Houve infecção em todas as plantas inoculadas, sendo que os sintomas variaram nas espécies e nas variedades testadas. Em chicória os sintomas surgiram mais cedo e se desenvolveram rapidamente. O fungo foi caracterizado morfológica e morfometricamente permitindo identificá-lo como sendo Alternaria cichorii. Não se encontra registro desta espécie de Alternaria infetando plantas da família Asteraceae no Brasil. Neste trabalho relata-se pela primeira vez, a ocorrência de A. cichorii infetando chicória no Brasil e o potencial deste fungo como patógeno de outras espécies da família Asteraceae.
First record of dieback of Ficus benjamina caused by Phomopsis cinerescens in the States of Tocantins and Minas Gerais This is the first recording of twig dieback in Ficus benjamina caused by Phomopsis cinerescens in the States of Tocantins and Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Eryngium foetidum, Petroselinum crispum e Coriandrum sativum: novas hospedeiras de Oidiopsis taurica no Brasil Relata-se a infecção natural de plantas de chicória da Amazônia (Eryngium foetidum), coentro (Coriandrum sativum) e salsa (Petroselinum crispum), cultivados em casas de vegetação e campo na Embrapa Hortaliças, Brasília, DF, por Oidiopsis taurica. A provável fonte de inóculo foram plantas doentes de pimentão (Capsicum annuum) e tomate (Lycopersicon esculentum) na casa de vegetação e pimentão no campo.
The objective of this study was to estimate the incidence and perform morphological characterization of Cladosporium sp. found on the seeds and analyze their interference in the germination of Jatropha curcas. Therefore, jatropha seeds were sown in acrylic box gerbox type and incubated at 25°C for 14 days after sowing (DAS) to evaluate the fungus incidence. For the confection of semi-permanent slide mountings, fungus structures were removed with platinum handle and the measurement performed under a microscope. Another experiment was conducted in paper roll to evaluate germination 7 DAS. The occurring fungus specie was identified as Cladosporium cladosporioides, which incidence was 98.0%. In the test using paper roll, there was a percentage of normal seedlings of 77.0%, abnormal seedlings of 15.0% and dead seeds of 8.00%. The germination rate is not affected by the high incidence of the fungus in the seeds.
Eruca sativa Mill. (family Brassicaceae), with its origin in western Asia, is a culinary and pharmacological species cultivated in Europe, Brazil, and other countries. In the United States, it is a minor crop known as arugula or roquette. Clubroot on E. sativa has not been reported in Brazil and has been reported once in the United States in 1914 (1,2,3). On several occasions since 2000, stunted and wilted plants (cv. Rúcula Cultivada) were collected from growers' fields and greenhouses that had been direct-seeded in Vargem Bonita, DF (two fields and one greenhouse) and Quatro Barras, PR (two fields). The infected arugula crops were found in areas where other plants from the genus Brassica were traditionally cultivated. Disease incidence in individual fields varied from 20 to 80%. Diseased plants were severely affected with hypertrophic, malformed roots, and root galls resembling Woronin's description (4). Plasmodia and resting spores in thin sections prepared from root galls were observed with compound and electron microscopes. Pathogenicity tests were conducted on arugula and Brassica pekinensis (Lour.) Rupr. (universal host) with inoculum from naturally infected arugula. The soil of potted test plants at the four-to-five-leaf stage was drenched with a suspension of resting spores. Symptoms identical to those observed on the original plants were produced on all inoculated plants 2 to 3 weeks after inoculation. Control plants remained symptomless. The pathogen was positively identified as Plasmodiophora brassicae Wor. with the combination of macroscopic and microscopic symptoms and signs of the disease and pathogen. P. brassicae was first reported in Brazil in 1965 in the state of São Paulo and in the 1980s in Distrito Federal on several members of the Brassicae. To our knowledge, this is the first report of P. brassicae infecting E. sativa in Brazil. Arugula is a susceptible host and should not be planted on P. brassicae-infested land. References: (1) D. Farr et al. Fungi on Plants and Plant Products in the United States. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN. 1989. (2) D. F. Farr et al. Fungal Databases. Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, On-line publication. ARS, USDA, 2003. (3) J. S. Karling. The Plasmodiophorales. Published by J. S. karling, NY. 1942. (4) M. S. Woronin. Plasmodiophora brassicae the Cause of Cabbage Hernia. Phytopathological Classics 4. The American Phytopathological Society, Ithaca, NY, 1934.
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